“If you call an election we have to ask whether the protesters would be satisfied.”

— Yingluck Shinawatra

"Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on protests" in BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-25155406 (29 November 2013)

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